The overuse of antibiotics leads to severe public health issues, including antimicrobial resistance, increased healthcare costs, reduced antibiotic effectiveness, the spread of resistant pathogens in agriculture, and the risk of untreatable infections, highlighting the need for judicious use and education on antibiotic overuse, say nephrologists.

Uncertainties about their use, overprescription, incomplete treatments, a lack of regulation, agricultural practices, public ignorance, and inadequate drug development are just a few of the factors that contribute to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, which in turn fuels the global crisis of antibiotic resistance and public health threats, they point out.